This is also becoming a pretty regular discount—it seems Apple authorizes (?) one major retailer a month or so to blow out a bunch of entry-level iPads this way. If it's not Amazon it's Best Buy. If it's not Best Buy it's Walmart. And so on.

Can we get the Dell laptop w/o an OS installed ?I don't want to pay for Win xx since i'm just going to replace it with Linux.

There was some HP machine recently that offered a discount for only shipping with FreeDOS, but I haven't seen a mainstream OEM willing to sell a complete computer without any OS at all. As for that specific model, they do have an XPS 13 2019 Edition with Ubuntu preinstalled, but it's about $1100.

The Pixel 3a is a really good phone for $349 and coming with a $100 gift card. Highly recommendable.

I'd buy one, but I want to carry my music collection with me which means either an SD card or a minimum of 128 GB built in storage. Google wants me to chew through data by streaming all of my music instead.

best I can tell these are identical except for Ubuntu vs W10 and the difference of $140... I don't think there would be any harm in putting the laptop you want in your cart and then "chatting" with an adviser about getting it with Linux installed for $140 less.

If it wasn't for the awful bloatware that is Razer Synapse which forces an online account to program offline hardware then at such a low price the Death Adder would be a great replacement for my aging mouse.

I wonder if the awful forced online software is the reason it's on sale for such a low price because I bet it's a decent mouse otherwise.

The Pixel 3a is a really good phone for $349 and coming with a $100 gift card. Highly recommendable.

I'd buy one, but I want to carry my music collection with me which means either an SD card or a minimum of 128 GB built in storage. Google wants me to chew through data by streaming all of my music instead.

I do the same (with a smaller music collection, but I do have 100GB of movies on my phone too). But if we're talking a $349 phone (plus a $100 gift card) vs spending significantly more on one with 128GB+ (and/or an SD slot), I might look at the savings and be OK with only being able to carry 40-50 movies instead of 80-100.

Can we get the Dell laptop w/o an OS installed ?I don't want to pay for Win xx since i'm just going to replace it with Linux.

To be honest though, since Dell is using OEM licenses for Windows at a steep discount due to simply how many they purchase, you would only save a couple tens of dollars, I would guess less than $40. For a large OEM like Dell it doesn't make since to create more SKUs and additional possible configurations for the handful of customers who might not want an OS (Keep in mind the drives installed in these laptops are imaged en mass and then just plugged in as they are needed, the assembly plants don't generally have blank drives.)

If it wasn't for the awful bloatware that is Razer Synapse which forces an online account to program offline hardware then at such a low price the Death Adder would be a great replacement for my aging mouse.

I wonder if the awful forced online software is the reason it's on sale for such a low price because I bet it's a decent mouse otherwise.

That or they're trying to clear out inventory. I've used one as part of one of their store demos, and it's quite nice in terms of hardware, but Synpase definitely prevents me from wanting to buy one. Personally, I prefer Cougar's line of peripherals, mostly because they don't require extra software beyond basic drivers and are usually competitively priced.

Can we get the Dell laptop w/o an OS installed ?I don't want to pay for Win xx since i'm just going to replace it with Linux.

To be honest though, since Dell is using OEM licenses for Windows at a steep discount due to simply how many they purchase, you would only save a couple tens of dollars, I would guess less than $40. For a large OEM like Dell it doesn't make since to create more SKUs and additional possible configurations for the handful of customers who might not want an OS (Keep in mind the drives installed in these laptops are imaged en mass and then just plugged in as they are needed, the assembly plants don't generally have blank drives.)

Not that long ago, it used to cost *more* to get computers without an OS because of OS / junkware sponsorship of the OEM subsiding the manufacturer’s price.

Can we get the Dell laptop w/o an OS installed ?I don't want to pay for Win xx since i'm just going to replace it with Linux.

To be honest though, since Dell is using OEM licenses for Windows at a steep discount due to simply how many they purchase, you would only save a couple tens of dollars, I would guess less than $40. For a large OEM like Dell it doesn't make since to create more SKUs and additional possible configurations for the handful of customers who might not want an OS (Keep in mind the drives installed in these laptops are imaged en mass and then just plugged in as they are needed, the assembly plants don't generally have blank drives.)

I'd guess closer to $10 per unit, regardless of whether the unit leaves with Windows on it or not.

Though admittedly, the chin bezel is a bit large/unnecessary after also looking at the new XPS 13 with its glorious 1920x1200 screen. If that one only still had a couple more ports...

Not with this specific model, but we have purchased a few similar IdeaPads and had good experiences with them. A quick search about this line turned up a review that says the memory is not soldered to the motherboard, if that's important to you, but it was a very quick search, so don't take my word on it.

I have used DAS keyboard for years. The thing is a tank..and I don't care if others an office away here me work! I do wish they offered an RGB model of their Mac version that wasn't the 5Q model ($250 ow!). Not many backlit, RGB Mac mechanical out there with "quality" on them.

I have used DAS keyboard for years. The thing is a tank..and I don't care if others an office away here me work! I do wish they offered an RGB model of their Mac version that wasn't the 5Q model ($250 ow!). Not many backlit, RGB Mac mechanical out there with "quality" on them.

Absolutely nothing against Das Keyboards, and it's definitely not as cheap, but I sorta want to put a plug in for the Matias Tactile Pro. The big thing for me is that it actually follows the official Mac keyboard layout, with the single-height plus key and the added equal sign key on the keypad, among other details. You can swap the function keys and special keys in MacOS, just like you would with a first-party keyboard, and the special keys are mapped to the "correct" function keys, unlike on the Das.

I did consider the Das, but decided I'd rather have a proper "Mac" keyboard. I am well aware that many people aren't going to care about the "correctness" of the layout at all.